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Update: The DIY Chaeto Reactor worked great for a month at significantly reducing nitrates and phosphates until a mechanical failure of the seal. Luckily I had a contingency plan for this, with a water sensor and rectified it quickly. Still had a mess to clean up but no flood.
Takeaways:
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Absolutely, check your nitrate to phosphate ratio. If your phosphates are higher than (Nitrates10) : (1 Phosphates), Tropic Marin has a product called Elimi-Phos Rapid. This product actually binds to the phosphate and allows your filter to remove it immediately. Once you get it to ~10:1 ratio...
Pro Tip: Products in Petco stores can be very overpriced. Prices on their website compete with other online vendors and can be significantly lower. Petco stores have a price match policy to their own website. Just look up the product on the Petco website, see if the price is lower and show the...
It's carbon dosing but better than using something like Vodka. Similar to Red Sea's NO3 PO4-X. I've used the Red Sea Product and it works well.
However, you must have an adequately sized protein skimmer because you are exporting the Nitrates and Phosphates by skimming the increased bacteria...
My Dad had 4 Percula clown fish in his 120, most importantly from the same hatch. Essentially, there is the alpha female, the alpha male, the 3rd biggest and the runt. The last two essentially stay in a juvenile form, they get along great. I have them in a 40 gallon now and still have had no...
Thank you!
Same company but different reactors
Link: Reactor
I chose the 4 x 12 without the pump. Doesn't seem to be an option any more. That was just $100.
I have a diamond goby that constantly stirs up my sand bed, leading to consistently high nitrates. Despite trying various solutions—better skimming, carbon dosing, and a small biopellet reactor—nothing seemed to work. A refugium would have been ideal, but my all-in-one (AIO) tank lacked the...
Probably not what you're looking for but I bought live reef sand from Florida and a few live rock to speed up the maturation of my tank and I have little feather dusters popping up in my sand bed and they are growing surprisingly quickly.
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Bit long ago that you posted but wanted to contribute.
My experience: I had 4 peppermint shrimp that lived peacefully with my Sixline Wrasse in a larger tank. Once I put them in a smaller tank, the Wrasse took them out one by one. So that's one thing to think about.
The other thing I learned...